Garment-supporter



.NITED STATES PATENT irrlcie ROBERT GEMMELL, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,228, dated July 25, 1893.

Application filed April l, 1890. Serial No. 346,196. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT GEMMELL, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Idritain, and a resident of the town of Brookl1ne, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to garment-supporters and consists of a device for attaching a supporter to a stud or button of the wearing apparel which is composed of two lengthwise spring-arms both made preferably of continuous spring wire and at one end portion suitably adapted to be attached to the supporter and each at its other end portion having a right angular bend but relatively in opposite directions all so that on pressing the arms in a direction toward -each other their said bends are moved toward and by each other, forming an eye or opening bounded by the portions of the spring-arms then between their crossing point and their said bends and also by said bends, substantially as hereinafter described.

Further than the above the invention consists of a slide held and to work on said spring-arms as above described, and also of the combination with said spring-arms of a loop to engage the stocking and which is held on the supporter and is composed of stiff and unyieldin g continuous wire, doubled and made into two lengths and at or near its doubled portion the lengths crossed upon and in close contact with eachother forming an eye between the doubled and crossed portions, and thence extended at an acute angle to each other with the apex of the angle at the crossed portions and their wider and open ends suitably adapted for attachment to the supporter all substantially as hereinafter described. p

In the drawings, forming part of this speciflcation, Figure l is a face view of a garmentsupporter of this invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the loop to which the stocking is to be attached. Figs. 3 and 4 are face views of the device by which the supporter is attached to and detached from a button or stud of the wearing apparel. Fig. 3 shows it as closed and Fig. 4. as open.

In the drawings, A, A2 and E are straps of the supporter, two A, A2 to be attached to the stocking and one E to be attached to a waistband H or other suitable part of the wearing apparel of the person and all as usual except as to the means of attachment of the supporter to the stocking and wearing apparel.'

The strap E carries the device for attaching the supporter to the Wearing apparel and each of the straps A, A2 the device for attaching the supporter to the stocking.

The attaching device for the wearing apparel, in one part, consists of a button or stud G held on a waist-band or belt H as well known and in the other part it consists of two spring-arms g, g2 preferably outwardly bow-shaped and also preferably of a continuous length of spring-wire, and which at one end-portion have a coil C by which with a stud D to fasten them to the strap E andat their other and free end-portions are preferably bent across each other to form more or less an eye h but in any event each so as to have a more or less right angle bend h2, h2 relatively in opposite directions. F is a slide placed and free to be moved lengthwise along the spring-arms g, g2 and conned thereon by their right angle bends. Moving the slide F toward the coil C of the spring-arms g, g2 moves the outer and angular end-portions h2, h2 of the arms from each other and places said bends h2, h2 in an open condition suitable for the device then to be readily placed over the button, when on releasing the slide, the arms close of themselves because of their springy quality about the connection of button with the band H and so the supporter is fastened to and held against accidental separation from said band. The movement of the arms g, g2 explained results from pressure on and removal of pressure from the arms. In the device shown and described the appli cation of pressure to and removal from the arms g, g2 is by the ngers acting through the slide F but obviously it may be eected as well by application of the ingers directly to the arms. It is preferable however to have the slide F as it serves to hold the arms against accidental movement when closed IOO A2 for attaching supporter to the stocking. Each loop is made of a continuous length of st1tl" and rigid wire doubled ata and then the two lengths b, b2 near the double end a crossed over and closely upon each other, forming an eye b3 at the double aand also the two lengths extend at an acute angle to each other hav- 1ng the apex ot' the angle at their crossing and their farther ends b4, preferably joined by a bend of each length toward the other and attached as Well known to a strap A, A2, as the case may be, of the supporter. The lengths b, b2 are stiff and rigid and at their `crossed portions they are in direct and close contact with each other all so that the portion of stocking to be attached preferably folded on itself, can be first entered at the wider opening between the lengths b, b2 and therein irst having been properly disposed, forced and drawn between the contact and crossing portions of the lengths b, b2 into the eye b3 thus attaching the loop to the stocking and 1n a manner to hold the stocking as worn most rigidly against movement under strain and with no danger of cutting or tearing it. Thestocking is detached from the loop by pulllng upward on its part toward the wider part of the loop.

Having thus described my invention, what I caim, and desire to secure by Letters Paten 1sl. In combination with a garmentsupporter, a device composed of two lengthwise spring-arms g, g2, at one end, both attached to the garment-supporter and at their other and t free ends each having an angular bend h2, h2 extending relatively in opposite directions and adapted to be attached to a button or stud held on the Wearing apparel and a slide F held on and movable lengthwise of said spring-arms g, g2, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with a garmentsupporter and a device composed of two lengthwise spring-arms g, g2 at one end, both attached to the garment-supporter and at their other and free ends each 11a-ving an angular bend h2, h2 extending relatively in opposite directions and adapted to be attached to a button or stud held on the wearing apparel and a slide F held on and movable length- Wise of said spring-arms, of a loop made of stiff and rigid wire which is doubled and made into lengths b, b2 crossed upon and in close contact with each otherand formed into an eye b3 at the double end a and having their lengths b, b2 at an acute angle with its apex at, and the ends b4 of said lengths the farther removed from, their said crossing suitably adapted for attachment to the garment-supporter, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two `subscribing Witnesses.

ROBT. GEMMELL. Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN. 

